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On the Right I.(history of the right to bear arms)(Brief Article)

From: National Review  |  Date: 10/23/2000  |  Author: Buckley Jr., William F.

The Search for Pure Thought

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 22

Are you up on the Declaration of Human Rights and the arguments that accompanied its formulation? There was old Heneage Finch, making the case for the right to own guns, in the event they should be needed to protect, not against urban terrorists, but against the Crown, in 1689. If you think that going back that far, when you're trying to decide the constitutionality of gun-control laws, is pretty idle stuff, at least you'd ...

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